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Reibel, David A. 1980. On the interpretation of the complement noun phrases of illocutionary/perlocutionary and transitive verb-of-motion predicates. York Papers in Linguistics 9 : 193–203.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

R. posits an abstract existential predicate and refers to the pragmatics of language use in order to account for the different interpretation of the complement noun phrases of illocutionary/perlocutionary verbs as compared to the same noun phrases with transitive verb-of-motion predicates.